Meals and Snacks?

EBF (extended breastfeeding, exclusively breastfeeding) LO (little one) started solids at 6 months and is now eating purées at every meal. Doesn't matter breakfast/lunch/dinner, it's usually a mix of baby oatmeal (with breastmilk) and a fruit or veggie purée, or just fruit or veggie with some breastmilk for consistency.

A resource in the package from our hospital has a suggested menu for 6-8 month olds that includes a lot more.

DH (dear husband) and I wondered if other families are feeding their 7 month olds this much. With three meals and two-three naps in a day, I'm having trouble seeing when these extra snacks would fit in. Our doctor didn't say anything about more than three meals at the 6 month appointment.

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When I have a day off my lo will eat 3 meals a day, or when SO (significant other) has time to sit down and give her cereal in the mornings. But she other wise she eats two meals and formula. I had to fill a paper out for our daycare that asked what lo has eaten and how much.

The state thinks a 7 month old for breakfast should eat a fruit and cereal and bottle.
For snack a fruit or veggie and a bottle,
For lunch a meat, fruit, veggie, cereal and bottle.
For snack a fruit or veggie and a bottle
And for supper a fruit, veggie, meat, cereal and bottle.
Then another snack before bed.

I told my daycare provider there is absolutely no way that my lo would eat that much in a day! That is alot of food!!
I had to be VERY specific when I wrote down instructions for my daycare provider on when and what to feed LO. I had to specify if I just wanted her to have a bottle or if I wanted her to eat food, and how much food.

I think 3 meals right now and bottles is plenty for our LO's. They still have tiny tummies and I even let LO (little one) eat as much and when ever she wants and she still doesn't eat that much.!

Holy crap that is a lot! My LO (little one) drinks 27 oz of formula a day. The morning has 2 oz oatmeal and night time has 2-3 oz of a veggie. Haven't ever started fruits! He loves his veggies. I'd be damned if someone told me to feed my LO (little one) that much lol.

No snacks. It's totally not necessary right now. She always has a bottle about an hour before each meal. When she is crawling I'll give her some puffs, but those are more for practicing getting food into her mouth.

I'll start adding cut up fruit to her oatmeal with she has more teeth.

I have a hand out that says how much they should be eating and I was thinking it wasn’t possible either! Mostly because my lo would totally toss her bottles away for food. I’ve always had a hard time barely coming close the the recommend amount of formula in a day so if I fed her every meal plus snacks, she literally wouldn’t take a bottle. I’ve been doing just dinner for the last couple months and just started breakfast this past week. It has affected her formula intake so I’m trying to feel it out and find a balance. She does get puffs, veggie/yogurt melts or a teething biscuit as snacks or maybe a nibble of what I’m eating if it’s baby friendly throughout the day but it’s minimal and that’s all we are doing right now.

Lo wouldn't want to breastfeed if I gave her that much. She gets oatmeal and fruit in the AM. A desolvable cookie for lunch (I think they are called noms) and a root veggie with a green veggie for dinner. If I give her a "meal" for lunch she won't nurse for 3 or 4 hours and by then it would be time for dinner. So I think this schedule might be based on 1 baby perhaps at the end of month 8 who really enjoys eating.

We are feeling so much better. Thank you everyone for sharing what you're all up to.

There's so much variation in babies too but we were worried LO (little one) isn't eating bigger chunks yet. He doesn't seem too interested in grabbing foods even though he'll pick up everything and anything (non food) to put in his mouth. DH's nerves can't easily handle all of the gagging and choking of BLW (baby-led weaning) so even doing little diced pieces of banana or mango has been slow.

Reading the package made us panic that we aren't feeding him enough. Glad to know you're all mostly feeling like it's too much food!

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